The top centerman on the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference will not even entertain suggestions he might be feeling some pressure after the eight-year, $46 million contract extension he signed on Jan. 16.

On and off the ice, Travis Zajac is a cool customer. His coach and teammates point out the Devils have won five straight to climb atop the conference and Zajac is doing everything right.

Except scoring.

Zajac has gone six games without any points and 10 games without a goal. He started the season with goals in the first two games and hasn’t hit the back of the net since.

“It can get to you. It makes it a lot easier that we’re winning,” Zajac said. “And if I wasn’t getting chances, if I wasn’t winning battles, if I wasn’t playing well in other areas, it would be bothering me. I’m just trying to stay focused and play the right way. Hopefully things flip here.”

Coach Pete DeBoer maintains that Zajac is “playing great” and insists he isn’t concerned about his offensive numbers.

Neither is Zajac.

“You’d like things to be going better offensively but we’re winning and I feel like I’m playing well,” Zajac said. “Like I said, the chances are there. It’s going to come. You can’t dwell on anything and let it get to you this early in the season. There is going to be a time when it’s going to happen and things will turn.”

Zajac is coming off a season in which he played only 15 regular season games and scored six points (two goals, four assists) because of a torn Achilles tendon suffered in August of 2011. The injury required surgery and his lengthy comeback was interrupted when he felt discomfort.

Yet Zajac was instrumental in the Devils’ run to the Stanley Cup Finals. He reminded management that it would be unwise to let him get to free agency.

The evidence of his value has been shown during the Devils’ five-game winning streak, which includes victories over the Islanders, Rangers, Lightning and back-to-back wins over the Penguins. The quality of the latter three teams is significant.

“I think so. We’re playing good teams and we’re frustrating them and winning games,” Zajac said. “It’s big. You want to get all the points you can and right now we’re just rolling.”

During that stretch the Devils have held Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, Rick Nash, and Marian Gaborik scoreless, and have held Evgeni Malkin, Brad Richards, Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis all without a goal

“We do it by committee. Pete has put in a good system where, if you work hard and play a role, it’s going to have a positive effect on the game,” Zajac said. “We’ve been doing the right things. We’ve been frustrating teams, especially their top players.”

“It shows first off our coaching staff and the system they want us to play and the style of hockey they want us to play,” David Clarkson said. “Second, our penalty kill. Dave Barr has done an unbelievable job the last two seasons here. That wins you games when you kill big penalties. Third of all, we’re all buying into the system.”

No need to worry about scoring slumps when everything else is going right.

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The Devils were given a day off today. They will have a morning skate Tuesday before hosting the Carolina Hurricanes at Prudential Center.